Winter Shower Brings Down Mercury In Delhi-NCR, IMD Predicts Cloudy Sky For The Day
The winter showers brought the mercury down settling at 9.5 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season's average.
Delhiites woke up to a sunny morning on Monday after the national capital received traces of rainfall in the last 24 hours till 8.30 am on Monday settling the mercury at 9.5 degrees Celsius, four notches below the season's average, as per the India Meteorological Department.
The weather department has forecast a partly cloudy sky for the day with the maximum temperature likely to settle at 26 degrees Celsius
Winter rains lashed several parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region on Sunday night which continued over the next day till Monday morning. Some parts also received hailstorms and high-speed winds, as per the India Meteorological Department. The upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, and Uttarakhand received heavy to very heavy snowfall and rainfall, observed the weather department in a press release dated March 3.
Earlier on Sunday, the IMD had said thunderstorm with light-to-moderate intensity rain might occur at isolated places in Delhi (Civil Lines, Dilshad Garden, Seemapuri, Kashmiri Gate, Seelampur, Shahdara, Vivek Vihar, Red Fort, Preet Vihar, Rajeev Chowk, ITO, India Gate, Akshardham Temple, Nehru Stadium) as well as in adjoining areas, such as Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh and Sonipat, Bahadurgarh and some isolated pockets of Gurugram in Haryana.
The weather department also forecast the possibility of hailstorms.
The IMD has also predicted heavy snowfall and rainfall for Monday in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Along with this, storms and hailstorms have also been predicted in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, and Sikkim. There is a possibility of a reduction from March 5.
Snowfall and rainfall in parts of Arunachal Pradesh have also been forecast by the weather department. Heavy to very heavy rain or snowfall has been predicted in many areas of Jammu and Kashmir and Uttarakhand. At the same time, there is a possibility of snowfall along with rain in Himachal Pradesh.
In the 24-hour period ending at 8:30 am on Sunday, the national capital had registered 4 milimetres of rainfall.
The sky would be cloudy over the next few days, the IMD said and the humidity level was recorded at 70 per cent at 5:20 pm.
"A fresh Western Disturbance likely to affect Western Himalayan Region from the night of 05th March 2024. Under its influence Isolated to Scattered light/moderate rainfall likely over Western Himalayan Region during 05th – 07th March 2024," the weather department said.
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